If you’ve started researching what it would take to get from mobile web to native app, you’ve likely come across PhoneGap—a framework allowing you to wrap a mobile web app and deploy it as if it were written natively.
We’ve done quite a bit of work in PhoneGap lately and the question inevitably comes up: are apps built in PhoneGap “slow”? A quick Google search returns a page full of reasons that would keep you from wanting to pursue using web technology in your next app. Before you write it off, however, we’ve come up with a few tips that have drastically improved our own PhoneGap apps.
